Hi Fellow Listers Questions come up from time to time regarding the DeRuyter Institute and I thought I would add this info. In the year 1834 operations for the DeRuyter Institute were started under the patronage of the denomination of the Seventh Day Baptist. The prime mover and Pioneer in the enterprise of opening a denominational school at DeRuyter was Elder Alexander Campbell. It was started by the untiring zeal of Elder Alexander Campbell and his building Committee in 1835 and at that time the following were members of his building committee. Henry Crandall LeBaron Godwin Elmer D Jencks Mathew Wells Jr. In 1836 the Seventh Day Baptist Legislature passed an Act and appointed the following Trustee's for the Institute LeBaron Goodwin Ira Spencer Elmer Jencks James Nye Alexander Campbell Joel Greene Martin Wilcox Eli Bailey Adin Burdick Mathew Wells Jr Perry Burdick In the Spring of 1837 the School was completed and Solomon Carpenter was appointed Principal and Sarah Robison appointed Preceptress. However the school did not open until Fall of 1837 and at that time there was a change in Principal and Eber M Rollo AM was appointed Principal of the DeRuyter Institute. I hope this is of interest to some of you. I had a number of Ancestral cousins and/or relatives involved in the settling of DeRuyter and the SDB church and Institute. Enjoy Pat R